{"id":67981,"date":"2025-08-14T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67981\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:51:07","slug":"former-nhler-and-norwegian-legend-patrick-thoresen-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67981\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NHLer and Norwegian legend Patrick Thoresen announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of professional hockey&#8217;s trailblazers is hanging up the skates.  <\/p>\n<p>Norwegian hockey legend Patrick Thoresen announced his retirement from professional hockey in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNTvwcuNME4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a> post on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Thoresen, now 41, made his professional debut with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> in 2006. He recorded four goals and 12 assists in 68 games during his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>While playing for the Philadelphia Flyers in 2008, Thoresen skated in the opening game of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals and became the first Norwegian-born player to play in a Stanley Cup playoff game. <\/p>\n<p>His contributions to hockey span over 20 years. After reaching professional status in Norway at 15 years old, Thoresen would later build a lasting legacy with the Norwegian men&#8217;s national team. He appeared in 105 international games, including three Olympic tournaments and numerous world championships.<\/p>\n<p>Thoresen ended the 2012 IIHF World Championship second in points (seven goals, 11 assists), finishing behind Russia&#8217;s Evgeni Malkin and ahead of Sweden&#8217;s Henrik Zetterberg. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of professional hockey&#8217;s trailblazers is hanging up the skates. Norwegian hockey legend Patrick Thoresen announced his retirement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-67981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}